Deb Peck Kelleher serves as ACE NY’s Deputy Director. In addition to serving as the chief operating officer, Deb leads ACE NYs policy work, and oversees the energy efficiency, transportation electrification portfolio. She joined the ACE NY team in January of 2019, and has drafted legislation that has since been enacted as the Zero Emission School Bus Transition law, Standardize Renewable Energy Tax Assessment Model law, and portions of the Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth Act. 

Deb Peck Kelleher is excited to be working on clean energy policy after over 20 years with the New York State Legislature, with 10 of those years as the Committee Director for the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee, and the Senate Investigation and Government Operations Committee. She has worked on the net-metering law, the electric vehicles tax credit, and the reorganization of the Long Island Power Authority. She has extensive experience in New York state environmental policy and worked closely on expanding the Environmental Protection Fund, the drafting and passage of the State’s Brownfield Program, the Community Preservation Act, the Invasive Species Council, the phase out of MTBE from gasoline, and the protection of Long Island’s sole source aquifer. She was also the Director of the Senate Education Committee, Alcoholism and Addiction Committee, and the Infrastructure Committee. 

Deb holds a Master's Degree in Environmental Policy from the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay with a focus on environmental economics and a B.A. in economics from LeMoyne College.